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Nov 13, 2018 14:05:38   #
(Main Photography Discussion)
A survey: How large is the hard drive(s) you use for photos?
LA wrote:
I'll start.

3 TB drive, 50% full. Contains all of my photos which are backed up on three drives of equal size.


Oh gee I have so many 3tb 2tb 1tb and the latest is a 5tb and that don't count the ones that quit on me. I do not buy any tb drive unless it says Toshiba on it. Seagate has failed me as has one other brand and when I opened it up the drive inside the plastic box it said Seagate on it.
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Nov 13, 2018 14:01:43   #
(Photo Gallery)
Stephanie and Roxie
SueScott wrote:
Taken during yesterday's family photoshoot.


Nice candid, but the shots lacks a little contrast and could use better posing if it were used for promotional purposes as in someone's portfolio. Not 100% sure how to get the horses head up during a shoot other than maybe feeding the horse a bit before the shot so the horse doesn't want to munch the grass. As for the model posing her in a better pose to straighten the legs and stand up straight would help. I have shot brides with their horses and pets Once I get the bride posed I then try to get the pet to pose if possible. Animals do tend to do what they do naturally. Like this horse nibbles on the grass.
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Nov 13, 2018 13:55:10   #
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Fujifilm X-T3, who is it for?
jeof1000 wrote:
For those who own's this camera, what do you shoot mostly? Thanks


Which camera do you speak of? To me the title is about a Fujifilm X-T3. I still have a few film cameras but do not use them as I use my Nikons often. if I used film I might try it. What film size does it come in? roll film as in 220 or 120 or 35mm.
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Nov 13, 2018 13:51:07   #
(The Attic)
Parents, protect your children...
Dedo wrote:
...because higher authorities won't:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/vatican-bars-action-by-u-s-bishops-on-sex-abuse-reforms-at-conference-1542043668

The catholic church has got to be one of the most depraved organizations in existence.
Why are they getting away with harboring and protecting these degenerates that prey
on children? Mind boggling.


All I read was the Vatican was setting a global conference and not desiring the issue to be at the scheduled conference in Baltimore I did not read that they were condoning sexual predators. I was raised Catholic and I do not poretend there are predators out there I just do not blame the Catholic church. You can find sexual predators in all Churches, Synagogs, Muslim groups in fact pretty much all religious groups. You only get in the news what the news wants you to see and hear. Do not blame one when they all have it. If you want just sit near a school and watch as the kids get out of school and you may just see one. A lot of times the unknown one will live across the street from a school watching from his or her window. In the news lately we have all seen or heard of the female school teacher who has fallen in love with her student. As for the Catholic church maybe they feel since they are such a large church globally that they should approach the matter globally not just here in the USA.
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Nov 13, 2018 13:39:45   #
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Focusing Problems
lancewit wrote:
Thank you all for your response regarding my focusing problems.
I have taken all comments on board and will try them and see what the results are.
Regards Lance Whittington


There are also the old standby close up lenses that attach to the front of a lens. They have usually 3 types in a kit and they are sort of like using a pair of readers in front of a lens . A kit consists of 3 close up lens adapters +1,+2,+3. You need to buy them for the lens thread you want to use them on. I have a set of 58mm threaded ones I used on the old Canon F1 35mm film that I used to have They work on my Nikons now. I just adapt the them to the lens threads by the use of adapters. The lens focuses auto with them attached but the auto focus will hunt if you are not either close enough or far enough too be in focus. I have stacked all of the close up adapters together to get really close up. I have a macro lens and they help getting closer than the macro normally allows.
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Nov 13, 2018 13:30:29   #
(Main Photography Discussion)
Falling for "give-aways" during purchases
RANMAN99 wrote:
Every day more and more credit cards are being hacked (many from online purchases) only use a gift card and only put on it enough ($) to make your purchase.


great idea
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Nov 12, 2018 21:05:11   #
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Focusing Problems
lancewit wrote:
I have a Panasonic FZ100 One Lens 24 x optical zoom 14 MP.
I like to engage in close-ups of insects, plants and those kind of subjects.
I normally use spot auto focus.

When I zoom in from approx 1 meter away on a small insect I find that the camera will start to focus and then go blurry and not refocus. If I re-zoom at say 2 meters I can sometimes focus but the the image is not as big as I would like.
Help please.
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in anticipation,

Regards Lance Whittington
I have a Panasonic FZ100 One Lens 24 x optical zoo... (show quote)


Cure is to get a macro lens that works closer up.
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Nov 12, 2018 20:57:05   #
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Falling for "give-aways" during purchases
ballsafire wrote:
Have you experienced buying things on line where you suddenly discover that someone else is taking advantage of you by having you agree to something you thought was the firm you were dealing with? Like I was in the process of buying a Speedlite Flash when I was asked if I'd like $10 off the purchase price -- I quickly answered "yes" because the mailing was free of charge. Come to find out I was "talking" to someone not having anything to do with the firm I was dealing with and I was to pay a fee after one month until ???. The next day I finally was able to let the firm know I did not want anything to do with them.

Well, I was so angry I wrote this firm an Email saying, "When people are in the midst of purchasing anything - you interfere as though you were the SAME business person I was doing business with. I was dealing with a camera store and I don’t find that you had any business passing your “racket” on (to) me or ANYONE ELSE." The crooked business is called "FreeShipping.com".

Did any of you experience this type of scenario? What to do?
Have you experienced buying things on line where y... (show quote)


Seen it happen once to me but I was aware of the intrusion. I cancelled it out and went back to where I started. Usually I buy at B&H and it hasn't happened to me there at least not yet.
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Nov 12, 2018 20:54:23   #
(Main Photography Discussion)
iPhone photos to PC
Architect1776 wrote:
Email
Easy from any location any time and can email to other staff any where any time as well.
Perhaps not as elegant as some other ways but works well including clients.


Only if my e-mail would allow more than it does for the amount of bytes I can add to an email usually it becomes just one or two photos can be added ata time to email myself.
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Nov 12, 2018 20:52:29   #
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iPhone photos to PC
dsmeltz wrote:
That this even appears as a topic is further proof that "Apple is intuitive" is total crap. I have an android phone and transferring the photos is so simple how to do it just never appears as a topic. My wife has an iPhone. Moving her photos to her PC is a royal pain. You should not need and app or an intermediate cloud drive to move full sized copies to your PC. The free part of iCloud is pretty small if you want full size copies there, and after transfer deleting from iCloud is REALLY a pain. Don't know what the intuitive part is about any of it.
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I agree. It should be like it was with the earlier phones. I think apple just wants us to use the cloud so that we pay for it.
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Nov 12, 2018 20:49:50   #
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iPhone photos to PC
BebuLamar wrote:
I simply connect the IPhone to my PC. Tap on the phone and allow the PC to access it. Then the phone will appears as a drive to the PC. You can copy from the phone to the PC but if you copy from the PC to the Phone, the phone won't see the pictures.


Which windows version does that?
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Nov 12, 2018 20:49:01   #
(Photo Gallery)
Late to the Party
I think I'm at the wrong party shot.. Like it
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Nov 12, 2018 20:47:27   #
(Main Photography Discussion)
VR for Sports??
tomcat wrote:
BBF took a little getting used to, but now I don't give it a second thought. Because as long as you hold down the BBF with AF-C, the camera will continue to track focus whether you are shooting or not. If you use shutter release for focusing, then as soon as you release the button, focusing stops and you have to re-initiate. Just try it a couple of times and see if you like it. At first, I wasn't so sure, but now am sold on it. So I'll start pressing the BBF even before I get my eye to the viewfinder, in anticipation of the action that's about to happen.
BBF took a little getting used to, but now I don't... (show quote)


You are talking about assigning the AEL AFL button to BBF? I am thinking. On my D7200 it is the button closest to the shutter button top but on the camera back. Or are you assigning BBF to another easier to reach button?
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Nov 12, 2018 20:44:05   #
(Main Photography Discussion)
VR for Sports??
tomcat wrote:
If you can get f/8 on stadium lights at ISO 12800-25600, then you must have some really powerful lights there. I am jealous because my 20000 ISO seems like I'm in the bedroom with a 40-watt bulb. I would kill for that lighting in our gym.


I do get it in the better high school stadiums. The stadiums with real grass are usually the stadiums with a low light level. If I find I need extra I will also use the plus 1 stop exposure correction button. It is usually set for during bright sun for a -1/3 atop to keep the white uniforms from blowing out. But I change it to 0 for normal shots and then use it to add 1 stop for difficult low light shots. My D7200, when you go past the ISO 25600 it goes to B&W only mode but if I add 1 stop exposure correction it stays in color mode at 25600 ISO. I have pushed it as far as it will go once and it still stayed color at 25600 ISO. A little noisy but I got the shots no one else got that night in a dark stadium. That exposure comp button is the one with the +/- on it.
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Nov 12, 2018 20:35:09   #
(Main Photography Discussion)
VR for Sports??
drklrd wrote:
thank you for actually what I was trying to say with exception to the 1/1000 sec. you mentioned. I shoot usually lower than the speed especially when the stadium lights come on initially. My Sigma 100 to 400 usually works much faster auto focus than my Nikon 100 to 300.


sorry meant to say Nikon 55 to 300mm
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